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Miguel Ibarra’s My Friend: The end of an era in Minnesota
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: Miguel Ibarra’s My Friend: The end of an era in MinnesotaHere’s the problem: Howler Magazine wanted a profile of Miguel Ibarra. Well, that wasn’t the problem exactly, the problem was that Ibarra is painfully shy. I had known him for three years and had no idea how to make him come out of his shell in an interview. But this was the guy everyone wanted…
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How MLS Gets Politics so Wrong
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: How MLS Gets Politics so WrongWhen I opened The Black Hart of Saint Paul, I believed we could take the oldest gay bar in Saint Paul and add soccer. People could come for a game, trivia, a drag show— whatever— and no matter what would occupy a space that was safe and welcoming to the queer community. (I didn’t think…
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What Allianz Field Means to Me
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: What Allianz Field Means to MeIt was a June afternoon in 2012 when a small group of Minnesota soccer fans sat around a table with then-Mayor of Minneapolis, R.T. Rybak. The Vikings stadium legislative press had really begun in earnest and Major League Soccer had been peppered into promotional pitches to legislators. They were familiar empty gestures we had seen…
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Why Start a Soccer Club? Guest Post by Dan Hoedeman
Continue Reading: Why Start a Soccer Club? Guest Post by Dan HoedemanThis is the sixth (I think…) in a series of articles that take a look inside what it’s like to run a lower division club. In this article I talk marketing. It’s personal for me because it’s my day job and, though I know it’s boring and cliche, I really love the craft of what…
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Building a Schedule the Minneapolis City SC way [By Dan Hoedeman]
Continue Reading: Building a Schedule the Minneapolis City SC way [By Dan Hoedeman]This is the fifth in a series of articles that take a look inside what it’s like to run one a lower division club. Because it’s topical, let’s talk scheduling. With our season schedule announced—and season tickets available for purchase—it seems topical to dive into how we get games on our schedule. The league schedule…
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Complete Darkness 2018 now Available for Pre-Order
Continue Reading: Complete Darkness 2018 now Available for Pre-OrderFiftyFive.One and Byline Press is happy to announce the fourth edition of The Complete Darkness. Filled with every detail we could cram in from the Minnesota United FC 2018 MLS season, it’s a must for any fan of Minnesota United. When we created the first Complete Darkness book about the 2014 season, in our headiest…
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Why Players Pick Minneapolis City SC by Dan Hoedeman
Continue Reading: Why Players Pick Minneapolis City SC by Dan HoedemanThis is the fourth in a series of articles that take a look inside what it’s like to run one a lower division club. It’s focused on the playing side of things: mainly, our mission and what it takes to be competitive in the NPSL. Last season, we won our conference without taking a loss,…
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Show me the Money: A Deep Dive Into Minneapolis City SC’s Revenue Sources by Dan Hoedeman
Continue Reading: Show me the Money: A Deep Dive Into Minneapolis City SC’s Revenue Sources by Dan HoedemanThis is the third in a series of articles that take a look inside what it’s like to run one a lower division club by Dan Hoedeman, co-founder of Minneapolis City SC. We’ll take a look at the revenue piece of the business as a super-interesting prelude to next article which talks about the sporting…
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Minnesota United FC’s 2019 Schedule: By The Numbers
Continue Reading: Minnesota United FC’s 2019 Schedule: By The NumbersWith the full season schedule finally released, followers of Minnesota United FC can finally start to picture what this year will look like. We’ve done a deep dive into the schedule, looking for the best away matches, home stretches, and everything else we could think of. The schedule GM DATE OPPONENT VENUE TIME (CT) 1…
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“NPSL is a Battle, Sometimes Literally:” Dan Hoedeman Answers Why NPSL for a Club Like Minneapolis City SC
Continue Reading: “NPSL is a Battle, Sometimes Literally:” Dan Hoedeman Answers Why NPSL for a Club Like Minneapolis City SCThis is the second in a series of articles that take a look inside what it’s like to run a lower division club. It was written by Dan Hoedeman, one of the cofounders of Minneapolis City SC. In December Minneapolis City SC attended the NPSL Annual Owner’s Meeting. While the league staff do a fantastic…
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Everyone Won, Also Nobody Won, In Crew Saga
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: Everyone Won, Also Nobody Won, In Crew SagaThe Crew are saved. After over a year of suspense, fans in Columbus finally received official confirmation this week that their club was being coaxed from the vulturous grasp of former owner-operator Anthony Precourt. Instead, a new ownership group led by the Haslams, who own the Cleveland Browns, and the Edwards family of Columbus, will…
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“A Look Inside the People’s Club”: Forecasting Year 4 for Minneapolis City SC by Dan Hoedeman
Continue Reading: “A Look Inside the People’s Club”: Forecasting Year 4 for Minneapolis City SC by Dan HoedemanThis is the first in a series of articles that take a look inside what it’s like to run Minneapolis City SC, a lower division club, from the perspective of Dan Hoedeman, a club founder. He is very involved in the day-to-day operations across the sporting and business side of the club. The plan is…
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Guest Post: Atlanta’s NERF Tradition is Terrible by Jim Oliver
Continue Reading: Guest Post: Atlanta’s NERF Tradition is Terrible by Jim OliverJim Oliver, former President of the Dark Clouds, contacted us with this piece he wrote about Atlanta’s golden spike and asked us to share it on fiftyfive.one. We appreciated Jim’s unique view and way with words and were happy to oblige. Lots of people in the town that I’m from hate Atlanta United for what…